Strange/unexpected Moz references?

Who Rattled Your Cage said:
No, I'm not going on tour, sorry, nobody knows who I am and I am skint. Chuckling. If you know anybody who would review it, that would be great, cos they're very hard to come by. Would love to go back to Ireland again, though. Not been there since I drove Arab Strap to a gig there in Dublin in the mid-90s or so. Ironically, they played on the same bill as a Smiths tribute band.

Having just read the synopsis to My Weil, I can 100% guarantee you that my book is absolutely nothing like that whatsoever, unless Lars Iyer has people tripping on diseases, has drunken pub discussions of neurotheology, mixes Rimbaud with exploitation film trailers to create sleazy, and neutronukes all previous forms of muzak stone...cold...dead. Chuckling here.

And oh aye. there are a couple of Smiths refs in my book. Should be easy to spot. I was in this book years ago (sorry, dunno why it's so much text, instead of the tidier link above):
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Well done on Paint a Vulgar Picture.

There is theology in My Weil, but the theme of turning to creativity and finding a private space to relax, away from a dark chaotic world, is the underlying likeness I sense with your oeuvre.

Arts, and local councils often give out grants and bursaries to writers. But I hope you have a blockbuster on your hands! I got the library to order some copies. You can't contribute a review on Amazon these days without spending a certain amount, which is typically upside down. Other avenues are to be explored :)
 
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4 weeks to go...
FWD.
 
‘Vicar In A Tutu’: The Smiths song Johnny Marr said was a “throwaway”
faroutmagazine.co.uk

The oen Smiths song Johnny Marr called a “throwaway”

While reflecting on the band's iconic third record, 'The Queen Is Dead', The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr deemed one track a "throwaway."
faroutmagazine.co.uk faroutmagazine.co.uk

Played ~24 times live by The Smiths.
 
goinghome said:
Well done on Paint a Vulgar Picture.

There is theology in My Weil, but the theme of turning to creativity and finding a private space to relax, away from a dark chaotic world, is the underlying likeness I sense with your oeuvre.

Arts, and local councils often give out grants and bursaries to writers. But I hope you have a blockbuster on your hands! I got the library to order some copies. You can't contribute a review on Amazon these days without spending a certain amount, which is typically upside down. Other avenues are to be explored :)
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Thank you very much for this. I suspect that the book is maybe too linguistically...awry for the average reader (whoever that may be these days) out there. I'm just happy it's out there. I hope you enjoy it when you get round to reading it. And thank you for getting the library to order some copies in. Much appreciated, and very kind of you. Also, thanks for turning me onto the Dublin Review of Books. Read some great, fascinating - if long! - articles there.
 


John who was the 1k Marr grant recipient.
 
From an Irish Times article about 'rockism' yesterday by Ed Power in the context of Taylor Swift's take-over of the capital city (Dublin) for the weekend:

It wasn’t just the media. “Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive,” Morrissey, former singer with Manchester indie band The Smiths, said in 1997. He later lamented her “frightening career” and attacked the Brit awards for inviting her to perform.

Morrissey has had plenty of competition when it comes to skewering pop stars...

www.irishtimes.com

Ed Power: Why does Taylor Swift trigger guitar-heads of a certain age? Rockism

Snobbishness towards pop goes back decades but it’s time they reconciled themselves to the new reality
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and
 

The Cult Mark 40th Anniversary with ‘8424’ Australian Dates For November​

by Paul Cashmere , Noise11, on June 27, 2024

The Cult will return to Australia for the first time in eight years in November as part of the ‘8424’ world tour, marking the 40th anniversary of the band.

Watch the 2012 Noise11 interview with Billy Duffy.



The Cult last toured Australia in 2016 and previously in 2013, 2010, 1995 and 1987.

The Cult formed in 1983 as Death Cult. In 2023, they had the 8323 tour to mark 40 yeas of the original band.

THE CULT is founding singer Ian Astbury and guitarist Billy Duffy, with drummer John Tempesta and bassist Charlie Jones. Ian Astbuty also toured Australia as lead singer of Doors of the 21st Century, The Doors band with Ray Manzerek and Robbie Krieger in 2005.

Duffy and Astbury started began as Death Cult in ’83. We can go back even two years earlier when Astbury’s band was Southern Death Cult. They released a three-track EP with the song ‘Moya’ under that name.



Southern Death Cult became Death Cult with Billy Duffy left his band to join Astbury’s band. Duffy was in a band called The Nosebleeds with Morrissey, who went on to form The Smiths.

Death Cult released the ‘Death Clut’ EP in 1983....
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The article completes the history with some more songs and gives the November 2024 tour and ticket sale dates -
https://www.noise11.com/news/the-cu...h-8424-australian-dates-for-november-20240627
 
Popguns lead singer Wendy (Popguns...a great band that shouldve been bigger...check them out if you like Primitives/Darling Buds) has a new project Fille En Rose...was always a Smiths/Morrissey fan as far as i can make out....nice album on Spotify etc...with what sounds like a Morrissey referenced song with what sounds like a Moz vocal intro and links to him in the lyrics of song London By The Sea Below

Fille En Rose London By The Sea
Found a postcard, March ’84, you wrote: “The good life is still possible”
But do you live it?
With the greenness of youth I drank it all in
Bu now I’m older and I’m sober

A chance meeting, May ’84, you knew my name, how was that possible?
You said: “I have friends in London-by-the-sea”
Are you still close, or have they cut loose?

Can you please explain why people have to change?
Can you please explain the nature of your game?

Cut to Hamburg, May ’91, you said my name out loud to the crowd
Swooning and sold, I was living in a dream
But I woke up and now I see you

Can you please explain why people have to change?
Oh, can you please explain the dying of the flame?

Cause I remember your touch as you took both my hands
I remember the thrill of the crush in the stands
As the music united in sweat and in joy
When you were a girl and I was a boy

Sunday morning, March ’21, I sing my life to the seagulls and the sun
But what of you?
You took a path that I couldn’t follow
I can’t adore you, not like I used to

But still I send my love from London-by-the-sea
Still I send my love for what you meant to me
Still I send my love (Sending love, for what you meant to me)
From London-by-the-sea (Sending love from London-by-the-sea)
 
The song above:



Not hugely interesting. She sounds like Kirsty MacColl to me. Never ceases to amaze me how many writers/artists you get writing their own wee self-serving disappointed public kiss-offs to Morrissey. It's like they're blaming him for their own youthful blind devotion and pedestal-placing, as if he was presenting himself as a god, not just a human, they bought into it, and they are now embarrassed by it.

These muppets come off like they have had a real physical, emotional, and mental relationship with their artistic crush, even if they have never even physically met him (though it seems this woman has), and are writing to an ex-lover. It's weird, and oddly hilarious, blaming the man for their own stupidity or obsession and imbuing him with all kinds of knowledge and supernatural powers he never had in the first place - and never claimed to have. Hard-fought adult dawn reveals all. Hard knock life.
 
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Who Rattled Your Cage said:
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Not hugely interesting. She sounds like Kirsty MacColl to me. Never ceases to amaze me how many writers/artists you get writing their own wee self-serving disappointed public kiss-offs to Morrissey. It's like they're blaming him for their own youthful blind devotion and pedestal-placing, as if he was presenting himself as a god, not just a human, they bought into it, and they are now embarrassed by it.

These muppets come off like they have had a real physical, emotional, and mental relationship with their artistic crush, even if they have never even physically met him (though it seems this woman has), and are writing to an ex-lover. It's weird, and oddly hilarious, blaming the man for their own stupidity or obsession and imbuing him with all kinds of knowledge and supernatural powers he never had in the first place - and never claimed to have. Hard-fought adult dawn reveals all. Hard knock life.
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I looked it up on bandcamp and found that the singer is called Wendy Pickles, and on passionsjustlikemine's Morrissey live history of 6th May 1991 concert in Hamburg, it says Morrissey called out "Wendy" after Pregnant for the Last Time.
 
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